We’re ready to show you a new feature coming in Mastodon 4.6 - Collections.
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The initial release will be a starting point, while we learn from your feedback. The early focus is on creating Collections, with search and additional discovery options to come later. There are a few choices we’ve made (on size, following, etc) that we expect to revisit.
In a new blog post, @imanijoy provides a deeper dive into the design process for Collections, and explains what we’ve included (and things that are left out) for the first release. We’ll be enabling this feature on mastodon.social next week, and rolling it out more widely in Mastodon 4.6 very soon. We’re excited to hear what you think!
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/designing-collections/
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We’re ready to show you a new feature coming in Mastodon 4.6 - Collections. These are a way for people on Mastodon to curate and share bundles of accounts that they’d recommend to others, to help find connections and grow their network more quickly.
@Mastodon tell me I can see a feed based on them!
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We’re ready to show you a new feature coming in Mastodon 4.6 - Collections. These are a way for people on Mastodon to curate and share bundles of accounts that they’d recommend to others, to help find connections and grow their network more quickly.
@Mastodon this is going to be awesome
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We’re ready to show you a new feature coming in Mastodon 4.6 - Collections. These are a way for people on Mastodon to curate and share bundles of accounts that they’d recommend to others, to help find connections and grow their network more quickly.
@Mastodon oh, you just killed Mastodon? Total down here ...
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@Mastodon tell me I can see a feed based on them!
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In a new blog post, @imanijoy provides a deeper dive into the design process for Collections, and explains what we’ve included (and things that are left out) for the first release. We’ll be enabling this feature on mastodon.social next week, and rolling it out more widely in Mastodon 4.6 very soon. We’re excited to hear what you think!
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/designing-collections/
@Mastodon Speaking as a contributor of @fedidevs which currently hosts Mastodon “starter packs” at https://fedidevs.com/starter-packs/
We're working on interoperability with Mastodon Collections and will use the same technical mechanisms in the future, but completion of this work is months away. We endorse people migrating their Fedidevs starter packs to Mastodon Collections wherever that makes sense.
We were involved with the backend tech behind Mastodon Collections. No competition and no bad blood!
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@Mastodon Speaking as a contributor of @fedidevs which currently hosts Mastodon “starter packs” at https://fedidevs.com/starter-packs/
We're working on interoperability with Mastodon Collections and will use the same technical mechanisms in the future, but completion of this work is months away. We endorse people migrating their Fedidevs starter packs to Mastodon Collections wherever that makes sense.
We were involved with the backend tech behind Mastodon Collections. No competition and no bad blood!
@Mastodon In the long term, @fedidevs will most likely focus on capabilities outside of the design of Mastodon Collections: longer lists, curation by multiple owners, etc.
Smaller packs more personal in scope might make sense to be moved to a Mastodon Collection. We'll leave it up to everyone to decide which service fits their needs better.
The safety features mentioned in the post (be notified when you are added, ability to remove yourself) will also be provided by our implementation.
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We’re ready to show you a new feature coming in Mastodon 4.6 - Collections. These are a way for people on Mastodon to curate and share bundles of accounts that they’d recommend to others, to help find connections and grow their network more quickly.
@Mastodon oh, you just killed Mastodon?
Since your posts it became extremely slow. Now a total down here ... 503 error since about 15:20 MEZ, on both of your status pages (social/online) all is perfect. At the moment it seems to work again: 15:30 -
In a new blog post, @imanijoy provides a deeper dive into the design process for Collections, and explains what we’ve included (and things that are left out) for the first release. We’ll be enabling this feature on mastodon.social next week, and rolling it out more widely in Mastodon 4.6 very soon. We’re excited to hear what you think!
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/designing-collections/
My one request is to keep my profile out of a collection - full stop. I do not want anyone to be able to add me. It is private for a reason. Bluesky does not have private profiles and being added to a collection or 'starter pack' there is a nightmare. My profile is set to approve followers and I do not want to have to deal with unwanted requests because I was added to a collection. Thanks!
This appears to have been considered, but I want to see it clearly in my settings.
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@Mastodon oh, you just killed Mastodon?
Since your posts it became extremely slow. Now a total down here ... 503 error since about 15:20 MEZ, on both of your status pages (social/online) all is perfect. At the moment it seems to work again: 15:30 -
@IGVazquez How can you communicate if it's not working?
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In a new blog post, @imanijoy provides a deeper dive into the design process for Collections, and explains what we’ve included (and things that are left out) for the first release. We’ll be enabling this feature on mastodon.social next week, and rolling it out more widely in Mastodon 4.6 very soon. We’re excited to hear what you think!
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/designing-collections/
@Mastodon @imanijoy I highly appreciate your usual care and moving in slow/small steps. I know that this is a rare thing these days, but I feel like this is a solid approach in general.
Either way, looking forward to see this in production!
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We’re ready to show you a new feature coming in Mastodon 4.6 - Collections. These are a way for people on Mastodon to curate and share bundles of accounts that they’d recommend to others, to help find connections and grow their network more quickly.
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In a new blog post, @imanijoy provides a deeper dive into the design process for Collections, and explains what we’ve included (and things that are left out) for the first release. We’ll be enabling this feature on mastodon.social next week, and rolling it out more widely in Mastodon 4.6 very soon. We’re excited to hear what you think!
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/designing-collections/
@Mastodon @imanijoy I think that adding a "you followed this account from this feature" might be handy for these. That way when a collection is updated and someone gets removed that you followed from that collection you could get a notification, sort of like when you boost a toot that got edited later. That would also remove ambiguity caused by following a person then a collection with that person for such features.
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In a new blog post, @imanijoy provides a deeper dive into the design process for Collections, and explains what we’ve included (and things that are left out) for the first release. We’ll be enabling this feature on mastodon.social next week, and rolling it out more widely in Mastodon 4.6 very soon. We’re excited to hear what you think!
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/designing-collections/
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My one request is to keep my profile out of a collection - full stop. I do not want anyone to be able to add me. It is private for a reason. Bluesky does not have private profiles and being added to a collection or 'starter pack' there is a nightmare. My profile is set to approve followers and I do not want to have to deal with unwanted requests because I was added to a collection. Thanks!
This appears to have been considered, but I want to see it clearly in my settings.
@MagentaRocks @Mastodon @imanijoy The blog post says that if you don't want to be in it, just exclude your account from the aggregation stuff. It's an existing setting that they're going to be adding this to which makes the most sense to me.
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In a new blog post, @imanijoy provides a deeper dive into the design process for Collections, and explains what we’ve included (and things that are left out) for the first release. We’ll be enabling this feature on mastodon.social next week, and rolling it out more widely in Mastodon 4.6 very soon. We’re excited to hear what you think!
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/designing-collections/
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We’re ready to show you a new feature coming in Mastodon 4.6 - Collections. These are a way for people on Mastodon to curate and share bundles of accounts that they’d recommend to others, to help find connections and grow their network more quickly.
@Mastodon for a while I have only one feedback: your new web design is so broken that it does not work in most browsers. seems it does not show anything without webasm which is malware by definition. at least, it seems so from errors. but it shows just nothing, empty web page. so you're not accessible from the outer world anymore in browsers that don't break system security, only via JSON requests. -
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My one request is to keep my profile out of a collection - full stop. I do not want anyone to be able to add me. It is private for a reason. Bluesky does not have private profiles and being added to a collection or 'starter pack' there is a nightmare. My profile is set to approve followers and I do not want to have to deal with unwanted requests because I was added to a collection. Thanks!
This appears to have been considered, but I want to see it clearly in my settings.
"My one request is to keep my profile out of a collection - full stop. I do not want anyone to be able to add me."
I second this
Will there be a clear and immediate way to opt out of this new Mastodon "Feature"?
The Mastodon obsession with onboarding massive numbers of newcomers as quickly as possible is pretty...
...undignified
Exactly how fast and how large does @Mastodon dot Social -- currently at some 288,028 Active Users -- need to grow?
And no, please stop
This is about Masto Social growth
The official party line that this is for all Mastodon instances anywhere is put to lie by following the comments / discussions at Mastodon Github -- particularly those discussions that are silenced as violations of the Github TOA by the official Hall Monitor
Where does it all end?
Anywhere?
Who decided Mastodon needs to conquer the entire "Fediverse"?
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We’re ready to show you a new feature coming in Mastodon 4.6 - Collections. These are a way for people on Mastodon to curate and share bundles of accounts that they’d recommend to others, to help find connections and grow their network more quickly.
I must create a collection of catposters, overwhelm people with other people's cuteness
